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Anna Faris!I do love her ditzy blonde characters, but after what she did with CD in "Lost in Translation" I'm sure she has something big in her.And I don't mean some cute indie rom-com, but something more dramatic, perhaps with a Charlie Kaufman screenplay.

OMG, Amy Adams, without question. Yes, she's clearly one of the most skilled actresses of her generation, but I'm so terribly tired of her perpetual innocence. It was borderline insulting that Nora Ephron actually tried to play off Julie Powell -- who, btw, is basically a carbon copy of Rose from "Sunshine Cleaning" -- as a "bitch." I believe "Bitch, please!" was my reaction to that. A bitch would be interesting. Ms. Adams, if you can muster it, get down, get dirty, get mean. Give us something new.

Dimi... good call. i think Bale doing comedy would be a REALLY smart move in his career right now (provided he could pull it off)

jose wasn't she supposed to do something slightly meatier... like a porn star biopic or somesuch. and then turned it down for another ditzy blonde comedy (sigh)

i'm going to say HELENA BONHAM-CARTER and JOHNNY DEPP doing something against type... like playing non-weird characters. Remember in 1997 when BOTH of them were phenomenal in very unBurtonesque roles (Helena in Wings of the Dove and Johnny in Donnie Brasco)

Haha, Jorge...I should've read your comment first. As for Anna Faris, who I'm far from crazy about, she played a fantastic character on an arc on Entourage. That showed a ton of range I never anticipated she had. As for Amy Smart...no range at all folks.

and i love sarah michelle gellar in buffy and think she has the necessary range. so she could be in something a little less "the grudge" and a little more "devil wears prada", for me she was fine in her comic sexualized performances in cruel intentions and southland tales.

leo dicaprio should do more comedy (he was fun to watch in catch me if you can).

and why charlize theron never did a hitchcockian film? she has the face for it.

I'd like to see Scarlett Johansson do a different role. She was my favorite actress during the first half of this decade, but she's done little in the last five years that impressed me. I suppose Iron Man 2 is something different, but that's not what I had in mind.

Anyway,zooey deschanel should do something else, anything else. Whether its a biopic or something. She's just herself. Which is nice but come on. I never thought of anna farris, I could believe she has potential, I guess. I'd love to see lisa kudrow do something serious and rock it out. Like robin Williams or Mo'nique who this year seems very likely to get a oscar nomination, I want lisa to be the next comedian to get a critically acclaimed role. Ellen page, I want her to play a non-teen role. I'd like to see her be a adult, other than that I'm good from her.

I would like to see Harrison Ford do something different. He tried in a few roles earlier this decade, with "What Lies Beneath" and "K-19" but the movies were not quite successful. I always thought have been making westerns. Why couldn't he have been his generation's Clint Eastwood? Also, Harrison should play a ruthless titan of industry, someone like Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth.

LOL it seems Amy Adams and Christian Bale have different characters in "the fighter": Adams acts a very strong woman and Bale is hilarious in Ecklund(according to the observators)i'm not sure on Bale in RomCom because usually i dislike actual RomComs i like idea on Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and Depp tried in "Public Enenmies".Clearly,every one has good ideas

sandra bullock - there is an oscar waiting for her she just needs a director who says no sandy -isms and the gold is hers,she is one of hollywoods best stars our generations goldie hawn and has made lots of hit films,she just needs the right role.

oh and michelle williams, anne hathaway and jake gyllenhaal playing hardcore-fans of nirvana, one of the oldest being in their late twenties... and then kurt cobain dies.i think the world is ready for a 90s-period-piece.

Yeah, I'm not sure if Johnny Depp is even capable of playing just a regular, contemporary human being anymore. I know he's getting the big bucks to do weirder projects, but I'd like to see him do something really basic, like a romcom.

Either way, I wish Burton would just stop casting Helena Bonham Carter and Depp for everything. They're way too good for that. Every time someone says "oh, Depp/Carter play the same person over and over agian" I guarantee you they're thinking about the Burton movies. The best Depp and Carter performances have always been non-Burton films (except for Edward Scissorhands). Depp's in Public Enemies was so refreshing, and made me remember he's great at playing normal people (remember Donnie Brasco?)

And no, I'm not joking. I honestly think that she has a lot of charisma, which has been wrongly used in the worst films of the decade (Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, etc.) I feel that with the right screenplay and director, Jennifer would thrive. She is a very good comedian (Legally Blonde, American Pie) and has the chops to go further.

Mo'nique keeps coming to my mind. She did do Phat Girlz before Precious...

I'm all for actors doing what they know and doing it well, and it's not the end of the world to be known for one kind of thing, especially if you're getting paid well for it! But if the goal is to be a versatile and "Serious Actor", then that's another story. I love Amy Adams, but changing things up might do her some good. She won't be able to get away with these cutesy type roles in her fifties and sixties, so I'd get started on some risky roles now while you're young and on a career upswing! To many people, you're only as good as your last role. Still love ya, Amy!

I'd like to see Denzel Washington do a comedy at some point because I'm tired of seeing him in thrillers. Kate Winslet as the main villain in a film would be nice as well. Christian Bale has said he will never do a rom-com, so any chance of that happening is gone. That doesn't mean he can't do some type of comedy, though.

Well she's not playing Bette Davis, but Meryl Streep has been attached to play what is essentially the Margo role in Flora Plum which is pretty much All About Eve in the circus. So if it ever happens...

Johnny Depp - one of my afavourite actors but I would like to see him play just a sane person and not over the top characters. He plays over the top characters way too much. He is excellent as that but just see him do something else. I wonder how he wouls do in a period piece. :)

On a serious note, though, I'd love to see Winona Ryder do something that's not all so "Woe is me, I don't know what I'm doing with my life." She was great in The Crucible, where she really took control and asserted herself as a dynamic character.

And if James Franco could ever play anything dark and evil (Spiderman doesn't count), I'd like to see it, but I'm afraid that adorable smile could never turn maniacal. On second thought, maybe it's better that way...

I don't want to see Amy Adams play a bitch so much as a Barbara Stanwyck-type tough girl, in some kind of revenge drama, a western like Sharon Stone in "The Quick and the Dead", or like "The Bride Wore Black" where you're using the plus of empathy and adding it to implacable revenge.

I like actresses that are sympathetic. For a stretch for them, I'd just like to see them play "don't mess with me, or I'll kill you". After a long week at work, I can really sympathize with that.

The stretch I'm looking forward to seeing is Edward Norton in "Leaves of Grass" where he plays twins. It's fun to watch an intelligent talented actor create two separate characters. There's the actor's awareness of his usual persona and what contrasts with that.

I'd love to see Kirsten Dunst do something to show off how good she really is. I feel like there is an Oscar winning performance in her somewhere...I've loved a lot of her work in the past 5 years but, she's still not getting respect.

Hmm. I forgot about A Good Year. Damn. I enjoyed Crowe in that film (and the film overall). He should do more of those.

I'd like to see Jennifer Connelly go back to the voluptuous femme fatale roles... if she would only gain some weight on her tiny frame.

Kate Winslet as a villain? Fascinating. Sign me up! It would certainly be an interesting choice post-Oscar (when many an actor or actress has screwed up with their choices; Gwyneth, I'm talking about you!)